Retraction Note: Retraction note to: The smell of fear: on the relation between test smells and flaky tests

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Retraction note to: Empirical Software Engineering (2019) 24:2907–2946.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09683-z

The authors have retracted this article Palomba and Zaidman (2019). Upon re-review of the experiment presented in the article, the authors identified errors in the flaky test detection strategy. After careful analysis of the replication study, the results presented in this article are rendered unreliable. All authors agree to this retraction.

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Palomba F, Zaidman A (2019) The smell of fear: on the relation between test smells and flaky tests. Empir Software Eng 24:2907–2946. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09683-z
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University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Fabio Palomba
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Andy Zaidman

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Palomba, F., Zaidman, A. Retraction Note: Retraction note to: The smell of fear: on the relation between test smells and flaky tests. Empir Software Eng 25, 3041 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09821-y

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Published: 26 March 2020
Issue Date: July 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-020-09821-y